Epstein Secrets

a and Iran to stop enabling Mr. Assad's savagery. The Washington Post rian intervention is justifiable, and just Anne-Marie Slaughter June 9 -- Henry Kissinger recently argued against intervention in Syria ["The perils of intervention in Syria," Sunday Opinion, June 3] on the grounds that it would imperil

violence in Iraq resulted in large part from the U.S. determination to destroy those institutions along with Saddam Hussein. As a cautionary tale, Kissinger and others point not only to Iraq but also to Libya. Kissinger lumped Libya in with Yemen, Somalia and northern Mali as a "blank space" on the map

eing on the wrong side of history, especially if Assad were to fall. The alternative would be based on an idea recently invoked by Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, namely that in civil conflicts, the incumbent government bears a much larger responsibility than its opponents do. Had he really wanted a peace se

of President Bashar al-Assad. "We're living at a crossroad," the Iranian foreign minister said. But he rejected former American Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's argument that Iran must become "a nation rather than a cause." He argued that, like America, Iran wanted to press both its values and its interests

accountable. I want to ask you about the turn in the road in modern history that you may be living through. One way that former Secretary of State Kissinger has described this is to say that for this "turn" to happen, Iran has to be "a nation and not a cause." It has to behave like a nation that has int

isting sanctions. Iranian concern was eased, Zarif said, after his contacts last week with Secretary of State John Kerry, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and the chief European Union negotiator, Lady Catherine Ashton. "What I have heard from Secretary Kerry and Lady Ashton is that they are committed

from his minoritarian background. There was stealth and steel in him. Interlocutors were often left guessing as to his intentions and commitments. Henry Kissinger, who parried with (and studied) the most accomplished in statecraft, negotiated with Assad in the aftermath of the October War of 1973. He came bac

sing as to his intentions and commitments. Henry Kissinger, who parried with (and studied) the most accompl

, and in Moscow Vladimir Putin won't abandon the son of the Soviet Union's favorite Arab tyrant, Hafez Assad. Far from it. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov last week rejected any talk of new U.N. sanctions or arms embargo on Syria. He even defended Moscow's right to arm Mr. Assad as he kills more civil

s =rivately acknowledging the opposite. "We have had 10 ye=rs of total control of the air in Laos and V.Nam," Nixon wro=e to his secretary of state, Henry Kissinger, on January 3, 1972. " The Obama administration has unlea=hed a similar air war in Syria and Iraq against the Islamic State. The res=lts have been

m," Nixon wro=e to his secretary of state, Henry Kissinger, on January 3, 1972. " The Obama administration

ve already attempted: bombing a broken country back=into shape. At what point will the Russian leader write a confidenti=l note to Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov to confess that their strategy of="strategic bombing" has yielded "zilch"?=/span> Is ego and acceptance as the other world superpower =oing to be wo